ADVISORY/Infraworks Executive Available to Comment on Pending SDMI Meeting, Questions Surrounding IBM's Newly Announced DRM Product Offering.

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ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Jan. 23)

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    Who: Dr. George Friedman, CEO and Founder, Infraworks

        Dr. Friedman, a nationally recognized expert on computing
        security solutions, strongly believes the music and publishing
        industries can prevent their content from unauthorized use and
        unlimited distribution -- but asserts that to do so, they must
        look beyond today's standard encryption and digital rights
        management (DRM) offerings.

        Dr. Friedman founded Infraworks' technology as a means to
        deter theft, manipulation and misuse of digital intellectual
        property by the user. All of the security claims of
        Infraworks' InTether software have been validated by The
        National Software Testing Lab.

        By using InTether, content owners can place restrictions on
        individual files, preventing recipients from copying,
        printing, editing, sending, saving or altering the content of
        the file. What makes Infraworks' technology unique is that
        unlike desktop applications, InTether restrictions are in
        place for the lifetime of the file. The technology restricts
        an individual from making a digital file available on file
        sharing networks or for unauthorized redistribution. If
        hacking is attempted on a file, the file self-destructs.

    Why: IBM announces new DRM product that claims to prevent
        unlimited file sharing and members of Secure Digital Music
        Initiative (SDMI) meet to discuss industry progress.

        Forrester Research estimates that by 2005, record companies
        will lose $3.5 billion as a result of unauthorized
        distribution methods and file-sharing technologies such as
        Napster. Digital rights management (DRM) technologies --
        including one unveiled this week by IBM -- and watermarking
        technologies -- such as those offered by SDMI -- fail to live
        up to the hype by offering the kind of protection that matches
        their claims.

    When: Dr. Friedman is available today (January 23), Wednesday, and
        Thursday for interviews

    More About Dr. Friedman: Dr. Friedman was involved in the
        development of BITNET, an early version of the Internet. He is
        a well-known author of books and articles on international
        affairs and business intelligence and has lectured widely on
        defense and national security issues. Dr. Friedman has more
        than 25 years experience in computer programming, management,
        international research, intelligence methodologies and
        analysis.

    Contact Information:
    If you are interested in speaking with Dr. Friedman, please
    contact:

            Meredith Friedman
            Infraworks
            [e-mail]
            512/583-5000

      Additional information about Infraworks can be found at
www.infraworks.com.